[NYAPRS Enews] June 23 Webinar: Forging a Path Towards Social Inclusion

[Harvey Rosenthal]

SAMHSA ADS Center FREE Training Teleconference

Forging a Path Toward Social Inclusion: 

Collaboration Among Individuals, Community Partners and Public Systems

Thursday, June 23, 2011

When

3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern time

Thursday, June 23, 2011

 

Webinar Description

The SAMHSA ADS Center invites you to a free training teleconference to
learn how consumers/survivors of mental health and substance use
conditions are working together with private and public officials to
make socially inclusive systems across many dimensions of community
life-housing, employment, education, arts and culture, transportation,
civic and entrepreneurial leadership, health and recreation.   

Speakers will provide strategies for building diverse collaborations to
map community assets and discover individual capacities that benefit
communities and the delivery of social services. As a participant in
this teleconference, you will see that social inclusion is achievable
and learn how YOU can be part of the change.

 

Target Audiences

Individuals with the interest, ability or influence to achieve social
inclusion in a community and public systems, including
consumers/survivors/peers of trauma, mental health problems, and
addictions; families; community development organizations; policymakers
or public officials; leaders of community- and faith-based
organizations; educators; employers; social service providers (e.g.,
health, housing, transportation, welfare); criminal justice officials;
cultural or arts organizations; and behavioral health providers.

 

Learning Objectives

As a result of this teleconference, participants will learn about these
topics:

*	The dynamics and impact of marginalizing people with mental
health and substance use problems, as well as the courage it takes for
them to re-integrate into society

*	The six assets of an individual and a community that promote
social inclusion
*	Successful strategies for assessing your community's strengths
and capabilities, and ways to mobilize community involvement to shift
systems and achieve social inclusion

 

 

Register Today!

To register now, please 
visit the following page:
http://www.promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/teleconferences/registration/Def
ault.aspx.   
We encourage you to share this invitation with interested friends and
colleagues.

Please note: Registration will close at 5:00 p.m., ET, on Tuesday, June
21, 2011.

 

Speakers

*         Jacki McKinney, M.S.W., is a survivor of trauma, addiction,
homelessness, and the psychiatric and criminal justice systems. Among
her many roles, she is co-founder and director of the National People of
Color Consumer/Survivor Network, co-director of the Trauma Knowledge
Utilization Project, and co-director of Philadelphia's City-wide Trauma
Initiative. She is the first African American woman to receive Mental
Health America's Clifford Beers Award.

*         Lindsey Dawson, M.S., is the health policy advisor at the
Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion-US, as well as a contractor with
the Kaiser Family Foundation's Medicare Policy Project. Ms. Dawson has
an expertise in evidence-based policy, qualitative methodologies, and
research ethics. An example of her work includes presentations on
community-based reparations and on methods by which LGBT people cope
with anti-gay political atmospheres in ways conducive to mental health.

*         John (Jody) Kretzmann, Ph.D., is the co-founder and
co-director of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute of
the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
The ABCD Institute works with community building leaders around the
world to conduct research, produce materials, and support
community-based efforts to rediscover local capacities and to mobilize
citizens' resources to solve problems. The Institute continues to build
on the stories and strategies for successful community building reported
in Mr. Kretzmann's popular book, "Building Communities from the Inside
Out:  A Path toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets," which
he wrote with long-time colleague John McKnight.

 

Read more about these speakers at:
http://promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/teleconferences/archive/training/tel
econference06232011.aspx 

 

Training Sponsor

This teleconference is sponsored by the SAMHSA ADS Center, a project of
the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS). CMHS is a center within
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.

Please explore the SAMHSA ADS Center Web site for more information at
http://www.promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov
<http://www.promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/> .

 

 

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